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Jazz.NEXT New Project to Explore Technology in Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
December 2, 2008

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Receives Major Funding Support for Innovative Projects Exploring the Use of Technology in the Jazz Field

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation announced today that it has received a three-year grant of $1 million from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The funding will support the launch of jazz.NEXT, a research and development program that will support projects that incorporate technology in substantive and innovative approaches to audience development, communications, distribution, marketing and the building of support networks. In ...

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Google Crowdsources Carnegie Hall Concert

Source: All About Jazz
December 2, 2008

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Like the old joke says -- practice. Now, Google can get you there too. Sorry -- you'll still need to practice. And audition.

Google is putting together a YouTube Symphony Orchestra that will take to the Carnegie Hall stage in five months to perform.

For the first time together Chinese composer Tan Dun's Internet Symphony No. 1, Eroica. Classical and non-conventional musicians can submit YouTube videos of themselves playing Tan's composition and a ...

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Outside.In Names Rvajazz as One of Richmond's Best Blogs

Source: RVAjazz
December 2, 2008

RVAjazz made the Up and Coming Blogs list on Outside.in's Blogiology report of Richmond. With RVAjazz's first birthday on Wednesday, this is a great honor!Says Outside.in, “We analyzed data from over 4,000 blogs that provide feeds to the Outside.in site, and based on variables that included total number of posts, location of posts, and links from other sites in the community identified the RVA Jazz as a top blog in the Richmond area."Readers may have noticed ...

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Getting to Carnegie Via Youtube

Source: Michael Ricci
December 2, 2008

Traditionally, auditioning for an orchestra means appearing alone onstage in a nerve-jangling performance before grizzled veteran musicians. In the Google way, it means posting on the companys video-sharing site, YouTube, for online judging by the professionals and then, ultimately, the YouTube universe.

That second option is the main feature of a new marketing project by Google to bolster the organized presence of classical music on YouTube and promote the idea of online communities. And orchestras and professional musicians, poking around ...

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The Name's Kaminsky, Dan Kaminsky the Geek Who Defended the Worldwide Web

Source: All About Jazz
December 1, 2008

Kaminsky was alone in his Seattle apartment when he discovered a security vulnerability that could leave banks, online retailers, and ISPs open to hackers. Paul Vixie organized experts from around the world to address the DNS security flaw.

In January 2005 on a drizzly Sunday afternoon, a balding, slightly overweight, perpetually T-shirt-clad 26-year-old computer consultant named Dan Kaminsky flopped down on his bed, flipped open his laptop, and started playing games with DNS. He used a software program called Scapy ...

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Job Networking Sites Soar as Unemployment Does

Source: PC Magazine
November 28, 2008

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Janel Landon, who runs a small PR consultancy in Chicago, has long been aware of the potential of online networks: now in her mid-50s and facing a global recession, she's decided to sign up. “Given the state of the economy, I recently decided to jump on board," Landon told Reuters. “Professional networking is a 'must do' during unstable economic times." The economic crisis slamming firms across the globe has sparked a spike in usage of professional networks—Xing ...

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France Mandates Nationwide Broadband for All

Source: PC Magazine
November 28, 2008

BRUSSELS - France will shortly call on telecoms operators to offer broadband services across all its territory for a maximum of 35 euros ($45.15) a month, a government minister said on Thursday. This would make France the first country in the European Union to effectively mandate the supply of broadband services. It signals a retreat by France from its informal campaign to include broadband in EU rules for operators that are designated universal service providers. A universal service provider can ...

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Copyleft The Great Giveaway

Source: All About Jazz
November 22, 2008

Copyleft is a general method for making a program or other work free, and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free as well. The simplest way to make a program free software is to put it in the public domain, uncopyrighted. This allows people to share the program and their improvements, if they are so minded. But it also allows uncooperative people to convert the program into proprietary software. They can make changes, many or ...

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